By a vote of 9 - 8 Tuesday the 15th region will be a Super Region just for boys and girls basketball in 17 - 18. This means that every team in the 15th region will make the regional tournament. However the format on how, the renevue sharing and the venue will be decided at another meeting. So let hear about thoughts like or dislike.

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How can people vote or support something without knowing how exactly things will work? Common sense and simple logic suggest that the so so-called " Super Region" seeding, venues, and other logistics be presented before its voted on. Looks like it not very popular with whomever voted either. 9-8 is only a simple majority. Once heard someone say, failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

How can people vote or support something without knowing how exactly things will work? Common sense and simple logic suggest that the so so-called " Super Region" seeding, venues, and other logistics be presented before its voted on. Looks like it not very popular with whomever voted either. 9-8 is only a simple majority. Once heard someone say, failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

When the 15th region schools initially voted on this, seeding criteria was agreed upon. From what I was told, J. Tackett and B. Cope from the KHSAA was in attendance at the last meeting on Tuesday and interjected their opinions on this issue.

Basketball may or may not loose a week of the regular season to accommodate the games and schedule needed for the Super Regional setup.

One school representative suggested this idea, which seems to be the most logical of what was brought up so far.

Have one representative from each district (57th, 58th, 59th and 60th) draw out a letter, either A, B, C or D. This would determine who plays who and where the games would be played.

Example:
57th draws A.
58th draws C.
59th draws D.
60th draws B.

From there, there would be another drawing for what district plays the other district. (A plays C, D plays B)

The District champions and Runners-Up would host the first round games at their high school.

A1 would play C4 @ A1.
A2 would play C3 @ A2.
C2 would play A3 @ C2.
C1 would play A4 @ C1.

D1 would play B4 @ D1.
D2 would play B3 @ D2.
B2 would play D3 @ B2.
B1 would play D4 @ B1.

The eight winning teams of the first round games would advance to the Expo center for a traditional 8 team bracket.

By a vote of 9 - 8 Tuesday the 15th region will be a Super Region just for boys and girls basketball in 17 - 18. This means that every team in the 15th region will make the regional tournament. However the format on how, the renevue sharing and the venue will be decided at another meeting. So let hear about thoughts like or dislike.

This will most likely be for only for one year. They were informed defore the vote that the KHSAA will be moving the Boys state tournament back earlier in March to get them away from the NCAA tournament and schools will lose a week of basketball season. This means this region would lose two weeks of their season in the future. The committee has not yet come up with a plan of how this will work. There have been options presented and discussed, but none of those have been agreed on by members schools. The vote was tied and then the chairman of the Super Regional committee broke the tie. So, technically one school had two votes. This is getting to be a pretty hard sell if all achools are not on board. Something this drastic should be almost unanimous, for sure more than a simple majority.